Data processing and accounting system

ABSTRACT

1,036,120. Printing. INTERNATIONALE BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION. Dec. 16, 1963 [Dec. 28, 1962], No. 49302/63. Heading G4H. A counter indicates the progress achieved in printing stored information and punctuating means prints punctuation under control of the counter and in accordance with a selected one of a number of predetermined punctuation formats. Two or more of the formats may be selectable to effect printing according to a combined format. The subject matter of the Specification is included in Specification 1,036,116 which is referred to.

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1. A SYSTEM FOR SELECTING AND CONTROLLING THE TRANSFER OF INFORMATION INTO AND FROM INDIVIDUAL STORAGE LOCATIONS, OR A GROUP OF STORAGE LOCATIONS BEGINNING WITH A PARTICULAR INDIVIDUAL LOCATION, COMPRISING: STORAGE MEANS, SAID STORAGE MEANS HAVING A FIRST PORTION FOR STORING NUMERIC WORDS AND A SECOND PORTION FOR STORING ALPHANUMERIC WORDS; MEANS FOR DIRECTLY SELECTING A WORD LOCATION IN SAID STORAGE MEANS FOR THE TRANSFER OF INFORMATION; MEANS FOR GENERATING PULSES ACCORDING TO A PREDETERMINED PATTERN; AND SELECTION MEANS, SAID MEANS BEING RESPONSIVE TO CONTROL SIGNALS INDICATIVE OF AN ALPHANUMERIC TRANSFER OPERATION AND OF THE BEGINNING OF THE SECOND PORTION OF SAID STORAGE MEANS, AND SAID MEANS BEING FURTHER RESPONSIVE TO SAID GENERATED PATTERNS OF PULSES FOR SELECTING THE ALPHANUMERIC WORD LOCATIONS IN SAID STORAGE MEANS IN A SEQUENTIAL MANNER BEGINNING WITH A SPECIFIED LOCATION. 